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Awards

INPhINIT Incoming PhD Fellowship (LaCaixa, 2022-2025)
Master’s thesis, with honours (UOC, 2022)
Elite athlete (BOE, 2015-2021)
World Rowing U23 Champion (FISA, 2016)

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Adrià Mitjavila Ventura

MSc | Bioinformatician at Institut Josep Carreras

Biotechnologist with training in Molecular Genetics and Bioinformatics. Interested in omics data analysis to study the mechanisms of gene regulation in mammals. See more about me on my website.

Experience

Bioinformatician

Institut Josep Carreras

Badalona, Spain

08/2021 - Present

Study of PIWI-interacting RNAs (piRNAs), their biogenesis and variation across species. | Processing and analysis of smallRNA-seq data to study piRNAs across species.

Bioinformatician

Istituto Europeo di Oncologia

Milan, Italy

07/2019 - 07/2021

Study of Wnt/\(\beta\)catenin signaling pathway -and others- in the context of colorectal cancer and stem cell development. | Analysis and integration of RNA-seq, ChIP-seq and ATAC-seq data.

Master’s thesis student & Research assistant

Instituto de Biomedicina de Sevilla

Seville, Spain

09/2017 - 10/2018

Study of Xrn1 and Ccr4 roles in yeast nucleosome architecture and gene transcription. | Analysis of MNase-seq data. | Performance and analysis of MNase-qPCR experiments.

Internship & Bachelor’s thesis student

Microbial. Sistemes i aplicacions analítiques, S.L.

Girona, Spain

09/2016 - 06/2017

Microbiological and molecular analyses for pathogen detection and food forensics. | Study of butyrate effects on the ileal microbiota of colectomized colorectal cancer patients.

Education

MSc in Bioinformatics and Biostatistics

Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC)

Online

2018 - 2022

Overall grade: 8.94 | Master’s thesis: Analysis of the variation in piRNA expression across three Mus species (thesis grade: 9.78/10, with honours).

MSc in Molecular Genetics and Biotechnology

Universidad de Sevilla (US)

Seville, Spain

2017 - 2018

Overall grade: 9.33/10 | Master’s thesis: Influence of Xrn1 in nucleosome positioning across Saccharomyces cerevisiae genome and its effects in transcription (thesis grade: 9.2/10).

BSc in Biotechnology

Universitat de Girona (UdG)

Girona, Spain

2012 - 2017

Overall grade: 8.12/10 | Bachelor’s thesis: Butyrate-induced changes in the diversity of intestinal mucosa-associated microbiota in colorectal cancer patients submitted to a lateral ileostomy (thesis grade: 9.4/10)

Publications

Begley et al. Xrn1 influence on gene transcription results from the combination of general effects on elongating RNA pol II and gene-specific chromatin configuration. RNA Biology 2020. doi: 10.1080/15476286.2020.1845504

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